Sacred Crossings offers personalized and
cost-effective alternatives to current funeral practices.

Services include:

• Home Funeral Planning. We assist individuals and families in the planning of personalized and deeply meaningful funerals at home.

• Assistance with preparation and preservation of the body for lying-in-honor, viewing or ceremony. This includes bathing, anointing and dressing of the body.

• Preparation of personalized funeral rites / rituals.

• Near-death prayer / meditation vigils, as well as grief support. • Delivery of a simple casket to the home. Assisting family members and friends with the decoration and consecration of the casket. • Accompaniment of a family member or an assigned "Advanced Health Care" agent to the doctor's office, Office of Vital Records, and crematorium or cemetary. • Assistance with transportation of the body from the home to the place of disposition.

• Assistance with completing and filing required documentation (Death Certificate, Permit for Disposition, Authorization for Cremation).

EDUCATION

Classes, workshops and presentations are available for individuals and organizations. The following is a sample of classes we have offered:

• What is a Home Funeral? Your legal and personal rights. How to create your
own Funeral at Home.

• The American Way of Death: A look at the history of funerals in America, including a discussion concerning the American culture's fear and denial around death.

• The Importance of Ritual: A look at the use of ritual in after-death care for families and friends.

Please call 310/968-2763 for information about upcoming classes and seminars.